Contains among other things: Prospectus of the Auckland Industrial, Agricultural and Mining Exhibition 1913 - 1914 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Popular Information, San Francisco, 1915 Universal Exposition San Francisco, 1915 General Exhibition of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishing, Trade and Industry from Dutch India to Soerabaya (Java), 1915 Comité National de la Semaine Coloniale, Paris, 1928

Contains among other things: Plan of a study trip of the staff physician Dr. Taute to India

Contains among other things: Cultivation of sisal hemp on the Bahamas and the islands of Florida and Mauritius Jute and ramie culture in India

Contains also: Lists for Belgian Congo, Portuguese East Africa, Rhodesia, India and France

Contains: Import of shellac from India. Extraction of shellac in the German colonies

Contains among other things: Legal Regulations in Australia and Dutch India

The Photography Collection of the Museum Fünf Kontinente comprises some 135,000 pictorial documents in the form of glass plates, paper prints, slides and photo albums. The earliest photographs date from the year 1870. Among the outstanding holdings are photographs from the expeditions of the ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grünberg to Amazonia (1903-1905 and 1911-1913), the research trip of the couple Christine and Lucian Scherman to Burma, India and Ceylon (1910-1911) or the trip of the father Meinulf Küsters to East Africa (1927-1928).Numerous photo documents from research and private journeys of other well-known and also less well-known researchers belong to the holdings as well as early photographs of renowned photo studios from different countries. The collection is continuously and systematically expanded through acquisitions, bequests and bequests as well as donations. Photographs of museum objects are another focal point. A small collection of films and sound recordings is also part of the collection.

Contains among other things: Guttapercha extraction in Dutch India

Contains among other things: Production of hard fibres in Dutch India

Contains among other things: Tobacco cultivation in China, India and Sumatra

Contains among other things: Statistics for 1891/92 Report on emigration from India under labour contract

Contains among other things: Statistics on Dutch India for 1895

Contains among other things: Jute growing and trading in British-India. - Increase in raw jute prices for Germany and Austria due to imposition of a high export duty

Contains among other things: Machinery imported to India.